Miami hasnt played against a legit mavs team since the finals. Last season the entire team was out of shape specially Dirk. Now we dont even have dirk and a couple of other bench players. Next game should be legit enough though

the fight wasn't shown on TV, obviously, but there were plenty of shots of the lower bowl crowd reacting to it. One of Spoelstra getting up off his chair, turning around in fear, like he's about to lose his job (which could happen at any moment).

To be honest, this is when it's the hardest. Leon Wood is my neighbor and he says there's no rhythm to the game anymore and yet they're going to be criticized after teh game as if it was an important game.

Kaman is just having a poor game overall, turning it over, not giving effort on defense, not rolling to the basket or out on those pick and rolls. I don't know what's going on with him, but he better get his shit together while the frontcourt is injured like it is with Dirk, Brand, and Wright out. The only other true big man the Mavs have is rookie Bernard James.

Collison is a really exciting player, he's a nice change of pace from our older PGs that we've had but man can he be a bonehead sometimes with his decision making. That said I think he could turn into a solid player.

I like seeing Dominique Jones and Bernard James getting some early minutes with the injuries to Fisher, Wright, and Brand. Both have potential, but especially with Jones because of his ability to handle and distribute the ball as well as a scorer, making him a combo guard with good size.

Interesting that Lebron's first quarter high this season is 13 points, but he usually likes to get others involved early on unless he feels the need to score if he's the main scorer on the court with an injury to Wade or something like that.

I hope we lose by less than 10 (given that this is a tough game to not have Dirk for). Having him out HAS given Rick Carlisle an opportunity to see what the lower bench have to offer. I've liked Dominique Jones, Dahntay Jones & Brandan Wright in flashes this year, Sarge looks like he could be a decent Mahinmi-role player, too.

Nice look from Wade out of the post to Battier for the corner 3. Looks like Rick Carlisle is going for a full line change, something rare for a regular season NBA game, as the Mavs have only 10 available players tonight.